The MIX 101.5/WRAL-TV BackPack Buddies MediaThon raised more than $219,198 and 10,000 pounds of food Wednesday in a day-long community event on TV, radio, and social media. The food and funds benefit Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s child hunger programs.

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is feeding children at risk of hunger right now, and nurturing long-term solutions that provide access to fresh, healthy food.

The MIX 101.5/WRAL-TV BackPack Buddies MediaThon is a day-long community event on TV, radio, the web and your mobile device to raise food and funds for Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s child hunger programs.

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is feeding children at risk of hunger right now, and nurturing long-term solutions that provide access to fresh, healthy food.

MEDIATHON JULY 13

ON TV: Watch and call in to WRAL-TV from 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. for stories about how your donations help fight child hunger in our community.

ON RADIO: ​Listen for powerful stories throughout the day as MIX 101.5 broadcasts live from two locations.Drop off your donations of cash, checks and non-perishable food and meet our team from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

1.Park West Village, at the southwest corner of Cary Parkway and NC-54/Chapel Hill Road in Morrisville

2.Food Lion in the Six Forks Station Shopping Center at the corner of Six Forks and Strickland. 9521 Strickland Rd, Raleigh, NC 27615

Donate $500: $500 funds a day of free summer meals from our food truck. The “Mobile Tastiness Machine” drives into different low-income neighborhood sites each day to serve free, healthy summer meals to kids.

Donate $1,000: $1,000 fills school pantries with produce for 1 month. School pantries provide fresh produce and non-perishable foods to students at 13 schools in low-income neighborhoods, creating sources of healthy food where children and families learn and work.

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is an innovative hunger-relief organization serving seven counties in and around the Triangle. Hunger IS fixable if the community works together to do 2 things: create sources of healthy food in every low-income neighborhood and grow opportunities for people to provide for themselves by learning job skills or growing their own food. From BackPack Buddies to nutrition education, mobile markets to urban gardens, culinary job training to urban agriculture training, IFFS programs go directly to people in need and create what works to empower them. We feed. We teach. We grow…to create a hunger-free—and healthy— community.

Children’s Hunger Relief Programs
During the 2013/2014 school year, IFFS’ signature BackPack Buddies program fed 1,850 children by distributing over 68,450 backpacks filled with nutritious weekend meals. But with 121,000 children at risk of hunger in the IFFS 7-county service area, IFFS deploys multiple approaches:

IFFS stocks school pantries, kids cafes, and after-school snacks.

The IFFS Food Truck, (aka Mobile Tastiness Machine) drives into low income neighborhoods and delivers hot, cooked meals FREE to children age 18 and under.

Nutrition educators teach children and families how to cook healthy meals and how to shop for nutritious food on a budget.

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Donate to Michael & Son Services - Get a $25 Discount!

We’ve all experienced that gnawing feeling in the pit of our stomach telling us it’s lunch or dinnertime. Imagine having a child who fights that feeling every day. Please partner with Michael & Son Services in its fourth year of supporting of Backpack Buddies. At each service call, Michael & Son Services will offer a $25 discount to any customer who fills a grocery bag with non-perishable, healthy food items. You can also drop off food items at Michael and Son’s Raleigh office location. Click here for more details and to make an appointment.